To wonder why people aren’t worried about this??

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https://news.sky.com/story/time-to-think-the-unthinkable-and-consider-uk-conscription-says-britains-former-top-nato-commander-13056148

Sorry if I’ve missed any threads on this.

It’s not just sky news reporting this but for days now in the media this is being raised.

AIBU - to be extremely worried and concerned about this?

Is anyone else not worried?? Are we being prepared ready as “the higher up” know more and the threat is bigger than we’re told.

what age would it be from and to??

l‘m so scared for the world our children are growing up in 😢

DP just said this, he says even if they got the numbers they’d be beyond useless.

Totally agree.

Probably a bit unfair. I can’t see Gen X, millennials or boomers having proved themselves, we’ve been luckier than the generations before us all

Glad to hear somebody has a cunning plan.

I understand he’s still serving but retiring in the summer

Not a plan
Just a fact

To be fair to the general who started this and is getting a bit of a bashing here and elsewhere, the British Army and the Foreign Office have identified Russia as Britain's main threat and enemy . This dates to the very early years of the 19th century.
He was just saying what the army always think.

For what it’s worth, I think a lot of people would refuse to join if conscripted to fight a war, probably in the hundreds of thousands if not more. Aren’t prisons crumbling and overflowing? Very unlikely they would have the space to be able to put everyone refusing into prison.

The usual scare-mongering.

It is a fact that unless the Russians were literally on the beaches, the womenfolk will be left alone.
If conscription happens (which it won't), it'll be the 18-24s, 24-36s, 36-50s... THEN the women.

It's also a fact that if Russia got as far as our beaches (which they won't, not least because they're just not interested), the nuclear fallout will be the pressing concern since they will have recently all been fired off.

I think a surprising amount of people would willingly sign up to this if it came to the crunch.

The Russians have had their arses handed to them by Ukraine.
They are in no position to launch a large scale land offensive.
The next major war will be a tactically nuclear one.
Essentially, how many nukes can be dropped in Europe and UK whilst keeping the US out of the conflict.
Probably half a dozen would be about right.

Good lord, and to think of those who sacrificed their lives in recent wars so that future generations, like you, can live in this free country to then hand it over so flippantly to an aggressor who really doesn't have your best interests at heart...

Thank you for that - made me smile

I read it in the Guardian yesterday. An outgoing general was warning that our armed services were woefully underfunded and that in the event of war, we would have to introduce conscription. He warned that if Trump actually became the next US president he would pull America out of NATO and may not support the UK in wartime. It seems like scare tactics. In practical terms I wonder if you can realistically ask people to lay down their lives for their country, when all their country has offered them under the Tories is a shambolic handling of a pandemic, public services, welfare and NHS cut to the bone, and a cost of living crisis that has reduced some to having to choose between heating their homes and putting food on the table.

You are forgetting China. They would not want this scenario at all.

If our current forces and those whom served before them were treated with the respect they deserve by the government, we wouldn't be in this situation in the first place.

Perhaps they should look to invest in the aftercare these men and women desperately need, after the atrocities they have witnessed and suffered through. Maybe then people would consider the forces as a career choice worthy of their services. Obviously pay massively comes into this. The severe lack of support they receive however, is extremely lacking when returning as a civilian.

I think this is scare mongering.

BBC do the same thing when their charter is up for review. They threaten to take BBC good food offline if they can't increase the licence fee.

Ha. People are disillusioned with this country and rightly so. Record breaking number of people living in poverty, why would they want to fight for a country that is failing them?

Came here to say this 🤣

To be fair for many people it couldn't get any worse than what their lives have become under this government....

It will never happen OP. People will refuse after the mess and lies that was covid.

They wouldn’t be fighting ‘for the country’, they would be fighting to stop an invading force doing… unspeakable things to them and the people they care about. It’s hilarious how many people think if you just refuse to fight, the war stops there!

Because in a time of crisis, people will very quickly reassess their values

I’m afraid that’s incorrect.
That was the modus operandi in ww2
Its not the same now and women have been on the front line for a long time.
It is policy that they are not discriminated against in the armed forces and will be called up with their ages group.
If it happens at all
It would now be against the law not to treat all equally

Oh come on! It’s really not comparable.